Relative-zeta and Casimir energy for a semitransparent hyperplane selecting transverse modes

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58904-6_5MaRDI QIDQ4593649zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Claudio Cacciapuoti, Davide Fermi, Andrea Posilicano

Publication date 22 November 2017

Published in Advances in Quantum Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05296

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectdelta-interactionsfinite temperature quantum fieldsrelative zeta functionzeta regularization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) (14G10) Operations with distributions and generalized functions (46F10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: We study the relative zeta function for the couple of operators $A_0$ and $A_{a}lpha$, where $A_0$ is the free unconstrained Laplacian in $L^2(mathbf{R}^d)$ ($dgeq2$) and $A_{a}lpha$ is the singular perturbation of $A_0$ associated to the presence of a delta interaction supported by a hyperplane. In our setting the operatorial parameter $alpha$, which is related to the strength of the perturbation, is of the kind $alpha=alpha(-Delt{a}_{parallel})$, where $-Delt{a}_{parallel}$ is the free Laplacian in $L^2(mathbf{R}^{d-1})$. Thus $alpha$ may depend on the components of the wave vector parallel to hyperplane; in this sense $A_{a}lpha$ describes a semitransparent hyperplane selecting transverse modes. As an application we give an expression for the associated thermal Casimir energy. Whenever $alpha=ch{i}_I(-Delt{a}_{parallel})$, where $ch{i}_I$ is the characteristic function of an interval $I$, the thermal Casimir energy can be explicitly computed.

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